I always loved Brian Jacques Redwall series as a child and I have enjoyed reading the stories that Jacques wrote in correspondence with the recipes. Each recipe is directly out of the original books. Furthermore, they taste excellent--no tweaking of recipes required. Flipping through the pages, it is lovely to see the illustrations of Mossflower creatures too.

The illustrations are cute and the recipes all sound delicious. I made the raspberry rock cakes and they were really good. My family enjoyed them for breakfast and tea. A great cookbook for fans of the Redwall series like me!

Fun companion to Redwall books. Delicious recipes.

I did not have a chance to actually make any of the recipes, but they look delicious and with the huge focus on food in the Redwall books, this is completely and utterly appropriate.

this cookbook made me cry? 5 stars.

This might have been the best birthday present I ever recieved from a friend. I was a kid who grew up on the Redwall books in grade school, and had developed a bit of a love for cooking by emulating Food Network recipes on Sunday afternoons. Thus imagine my delight when I recieved this book to find an adorable storyline with all my favourite characters (Matthias! Cornflower! Basil!), interwoven with substantial, hearty, healthy recipes that actually turned out to be delicious.

For anyone who's ever read Brain Jacques' mouth-watering, multipage descriptions of the Redwall feasts, and always wondered just why the otters went so crazy for Shrimp 'N Hotroot Soup or Deeper 'N Ever pie...you won't be disappointed. All the childhood magic of Redwall is brought to life in this wonderful book. A true gem!

A wonderful story to introduce recipes that bring the most fabled Redwall dishes to life? The only thing more you could hope for is more recipes.

Saw this and got it for Coby, and we tried two recipes from it. Yummy! And cutely-written, if you're a Redwall fan.

Lots of recepies to try and the story is lovely

For all of you who wished you were at each and every Redwall feast, who's mouths watered with the descriptions of the scones, and pies, and bakes, and fizzes, and who wondered what some of the foods were, this book is for you!!!

I own this cookbook, and while I do enjoy it I find that it doesn't really live up to the promise of the wondrous feasts described in the Redwall books. To be sure this book contains some very tasty recipes, however some are very clearly lacking.

My prime example for this would be the Otters famous Hotroot Soup, a personal favorite of mine as a lover of spicy food and one of my main reasons for purchasing the book. I was curious how this strange concoction was made, was it hot from Ginger? That seemed unlikely. Perhaps Horseradish! However when I looked inside I found the soup to be fairly bland, and more importantly devoid of anything that could be called a "Hotroot."

It's nice to have a cookbook with Redwall connections, and certainly this cookbook had plenty. It also had a number of tasty dishes. Overall though I feel the cookbook did not make a very strong effort to reproduce foods in the books and tended to use the names as a form of branding.

I have enjoyed reading a few of the Redwall books whenever I can find them and get my hands on them. Unfortunately it has been such a long time since I visited within the confines of the Abbey. As a result I was surprised to see that there was a cookbook and chose to snoop it out since as the majority of Redwall readers know food plays such a vital role within the books.

The book started off with a great promise of things to come due to the introduction. When reading a book one finds themselves often wondering about bits and pieces of the book. How did this come along? What made the author to think up this crazy yet workable idea? And very rarely do we get an answer although in this case Brian Jacques proves to answer the main question of why food is such a large part as well as indirectly why so many books also involves fighting of forces - good versus evil. It was an eye-opener and one I appreciated getting to know.

As for the book it is a split genre type, which makes it all the more intriguing. The general title leads the reader to believe that this is only a mere cookbook filled with recipes to take readers back to the nostalgic environs of the beloved series. Instead there isn't only a cookbook within the pages but a year's telling of Friar Hugo and his assistant Sister Pansy thus you have a new take on dinner and entertainment.

For me personally I found it a lot easier to skip over the recipes while I read through the story itself. Each season starts off with a seasonal poem then progresses into the story of some type of preparation for a seasonal feast. And then depending on which way the story is going is how the recipes are presented whether it is through recipe trading, watching a special dish being made by its main contributor or explaining dishes that form the feast/picnic. This then is how the book cohesively works together the different genres.

As for the recipes, most are pretty basic and simple without the need for a lot of ingredients or directions. Given the demographics of Redwall, the majority of the recipes run towards vegetarian and surprisingly a lot use honey instead of sugar for sweetening. Furthermore there is definitely more recipes leaning towards dessert foods rather than main courses or side dishes but at least what there is can help to flesh out your own meals. And I can't wait to try a few of these recipes out for myself.

Finally the last thing about this book is that it carries on the Redwall characters by providing brightly colored and detailed illustrations that captures the essence of the characters. These characters are extended by using Bungo and Friar Hugo as markers to mark whether recipes need adult cooks or are dibbun (child-friendly), with the latter being so infrequent. On the other hand, though, unfortunately there are no pictures on what the recipes themselves are suppose to look like as an end result.

In the end the book makes for a great Redwall addition if you like to learn more about the characters during their peacetime activities and a bonus to readers who are leaning towards a vegetarian-focused diet. Otherwise the book may be a hit or miss to other readers who aren't fans f either focus.